Rehabilitation Sciences 3360A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pilon Fracture, Radiodensity, Polytrauma
2 Apr 2018
School
Department
Professor
Document Summary
Bone: direct force application the force is applied directly to the bone where the fracture occurs. These are most often referred to as blunt force traumas. Indirect force applications the external force is applied away from the fracture site. Traction avulsion - fraction of bone pulled away: angulation caused by bending, rotational two ends twisting - stand-in and turning fast. Vertical compression pilon fracture - coming down hard on your leg from doing a layup. Intra-articular - within the joint capsule on at lease one of the articulating surfaces tibial plateau fracture, knee joint, harder to heal. X-rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation. can see callus formation and bone healing. Because x-rays are so small (about the size of atoms) they pass through most materials, as the x rays pass through the body they are registered on a lm or x-ray detector. This generates slices of the structure that are then processed by a computer to create the image,
